Bed-mattress.



F. MAJOR.

BED MATTRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1914.

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; tion above FRANK MAJOR, OF MISHAWAKA, INDIANA.

BED-MATTRESS.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 9, 1914.

Patented Aug. 11, 191%. Serial No. 811,212.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MAJoR, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Mishawaka, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Bed-Mattresses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to beds, and more particularly, to a novel form of mattress to be used in conjunction therewith. All beds, so far as known in common use, embody five parts, namely, a head, foot, two side rails, and a mattress. lVith the ordinary metallic bed in common use, it frequently happens that in moving, one of the side rails is lost, thus rendering the bed inoperative to perform the function for which it was designed.

The other object of the present invention is, in a ready and practical manner, to combine the side rails permanently with the mattress, which will be preferably, of the coiled or woven wire type, thereby reducing the number of parts of the bed to three, namely, a head, foot, and combined mattress and side rails. As will be obvious, by as sembling the side rails permanently with the mattress, loss of the former in moving will be positively obviated, so that the objecpointed out will be absolutely eliminated.

With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts of a combined mattress and side rails for beds, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts :Figure 1 is a top plan view of a combined mattress and side rails constructed in accordance with the present invention. F 2 is a transverse sectional View on an enlarged scale, showing the man ner of assembling the combined side rails and mattress with an ordinary wooden bed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, showing the manner in which the springs, which in this instance, are of the helical type, are combined with the rim wire of the mattress. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View taken on the line 4- 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of a form of side rails that may be employed in lieu of that shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The mattress which may be constructed either of woven or helical springs will be of the ordinary type in common use and in the present instance, the form embodying helical springs is shown, as exhibited in Figs. 1 and 2, wherein l designates the bottom stays which are preferably constructed of a continuous piece of metal extending from side to side of the mattress, 2 the top stays which are preferably constructed of Wire, and are interlocked in any preferred manner with the upper whirls of the helical springs 3, the lower whirls of which are bent around the bottom stay 1 as shown at 4. As usual, the mattress embodies a continuous rim 5 with which the terminals of the lateral top stays 2 are firmly connected.

As shown in Fig. 2, the side rails 6 of the mattress are angular in cross-section, and to the horizontal members 7 of the side rails are secured the terminals of the bottom stays 1 preferably by bolts 8, although any other form of fastening means may be employed for the purpose. The vertical mem bers of the side rails are secured by screws 9, indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, to wooden bed rails 10, this arrangement being shown to exemplify the manner in which the device may be applied to an ordinary wooden bed, but where the bed is wholly of metal, the side rails 11, a fragment of one of which is shown in Fig. 5, will be provided at each end with a conical lug 12 designed to engage a similarly-shaped socket Igagried by the head and foot pieces of the As shown in Fig. 2, in order to secure the bottom stays 1 to the side rails 6, the terminals of the former are bent on a quarterturn in order to lie flat on the rails, and in order to render the structure stable, transverse stays 13 are employed, each of which is provided at its point of contact with one of the transverse stays l with a seat 14 to receive the stay as shown in Fig. 4. The quarter-turned ends of the transverse stays 1, not only permit a flat contact and parallel engagement of the ends of said stays with the side rails of the bed, but also present the upper edges of said stays in the necessary vertical relation to the seats 14 of the longitudinal stays 13 to effect an interlocking e11- gagement of said cross-stays, with said longitudinal stays at their points of intersection, to insure a bracing of said connected members both longitudinally and transversely. Thus the quarter-turned ends oi the transverse stays co-act with the horizontal portions ofthe angular side rails, and also with the interlocked stays, to impart rigidity to the whole structure. Now, from what has been stated, it will be seen that when the bed is knocked down, the side rails will be a permanent part of the mattress, thus leaving only two additional parts to be handled, namely, the head and the foot. 7

What is claimed as new is:-

In a bed mattress, the combination with bed side-rails and supplemental angle irons secured thereto, of a rectangular frame or top rim, rigid longitudinal stays disposed parallel with said rails and spaced apart,

and formed with transversely registering seats. transverse stays crossing the longitudinal stays at right angles thereto, and hav- 7 ing their ends turned to bring said ends into position to flatly engage said angle irons, and to present the upper edges of said transverse stays in position to engage said seats to firmly connect said transverse stays at their points of crossing with said longitudinal stays, and a wire mattress permanently secured to said rlght-angularly crossed stays,

and to said frame, whereby the mattress is also permanently secured to the angle lrons and the side-rails of the bed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y v

FRANK MAJOR. 7 Witnesses:

ERNEST Bmxssovnnyrr, Jenn MAJOR.

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Washington, D. 0. 

